Tuesday, 2 September 2008

This is a space for the ALT-C 2008 conference workshop: Crossing the chasm, offering sceptics a helping hand across the digital divide. A place to post submissions, suggestions and reflections drawn from the Business e-learning (BeL) workshop. All materials here may be hosted on Community @ Brighton (http://community.brighton.ac.uk/crosschasm) for posterity.

Let me put my head above the parapet! Many HE lecturers do that, they lecture rarely is there a worked out pedagogy for a module. 'Pile 'em high and lecture 'em long - then give an examination' just will not do to give students of the 21C a 'proper education' When the pedagogy is worked out then appropriate e-learning can then be used to help a student-centred experience.

Thanks for the positive feedback Brian. I appreciate your thoughts on where 21s C education should be focussed. I would like to qualify, that if I appear to be an advocate of e with everything, I was simplifying, in my enthuiasm. THere are many times when I think sitting round a fire, sharing words, will allow a level f teaching that may never be achieved online. It is a matter of the right tool for the right task. I don't want to drag colleagues over the chasm, but to make the chasm crossable when the time and circumstances are right. asher

It's great when you have access to the fire to sit around :-). But afterwards, how do you keep the learning live? How for example do we keep learning live from today's keynote - we'll have a great memory of the technology and great presentation, and the stepladder, but to turn this into learning for ourselves? As teachers we have responsibility for engineering some enduring experiences for learners. That includes, for me, making possible extended conversations beyond the class session, or offering student support above the group offering- focussed on what individuals need. Online activities and objects can be used to offer this - allowing reinforcement, reflection for the learner, but definitely not R&R for the teacher or moderator!

PSI have just posted outputs from the workshop on the community@brighton site to which there is a public link from this blog.Includes your contributions on designs, your comments on our Brighton examples, and the output ideas from the plenary.many thanks to all

About Me

Asher
is principal lecturer in e-business, digital marketing and management
information systems. He has researched and taught at Brighton
Business School since 2001 and has developed successful modules in
e-commerce, mobile innovations, big data and digital marketing. Asher
has research interests in the history, role and nature of higher
education, graduate employability and how graduates might best be
served by university as well as e-commerce, digital marketing, big
data and digital entrepreneurs. With Tom Bourner and Sue Greener he
has researched 'new vocationalism', an approach to graduate
employability which emphasises the demonstration of a capacity
and disposition to learn within employment.

Before joining the University of Brighton I was a
project manger at CNet / ZDNet developing commercial e-commerce
publishing systems, working with developers across Europe, the USA
and Singapore. I had six years at ZDNet and was web master to the a
number of properties including PC Magazine, The Computer Channel, IT
Week and Gamespot UK, which won the PPAi consumer web site award in
1999.

Away from the Business School I have an excitement
about sustainable and low impact living, tipis and fire. I have been
keeping the fire in the tipi field at Glastonbury Festival since the
early nineties.